<p>Beauvoir, op. cit., pp. 249-497; Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1963).</p>

<p>Slater and Slater, op. cit., pp. 249-250.</p>

<p>Kohlberg, op. cit., p. 162.</p>

<p>Beauvoir, op. cit,, p. 267.</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 168.</p>

<p>Mead, op. cit., p. 303.</p>

<p>Philip and Dori I. Slater, »Maternal Ambivalence and Narcissism: A Cross-Cultural Study« Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 2 (1965): 241-259. Both B. Whiting and Slater suggest that the personality structure of women in societies where husbands are absent or where the marriage relationship is distant may also be affected. Slater suggests that women may be resentful of their subordinate and isolated role in the society at large and compensate for this by exercising arbitrary and great power in the household, particularly over male children.

<p>Ibid.; Beatrice B. Whiting, »Sex Identity Conflict and Physical Violence: A Comparative Study« unpublished paper.</p>

<p>Burton and Whiting, op. cit., p. 90.</p>

<p>I would maintain that even in these societies, mothers have more control of resources and spend more time with children, so that boys would still have a harder time than girls in developing a sex-role identity.</p>